Today, when I was chatting with a friend, I talked about the problem of not being able to hold profits in trading. This should be a dilemma that most traders have encountered or are facing. I am also a trader, and I have also had such troubles before. Fortunately, the control is pretty good now, so I use this article to share my personal experience. It cannot be said that it is 100% effective for everyone, at least it can be used as a reference.
Just because I have a deep understanding, I feel that there is no need to talk about the principles of mentality. The real way to solve the problem is to find out the possible reasons behind it and prescribe the right medicine. It is true that the reasons for the appearance of each trader are different, and I only discuss the details of what I have encountered before.
Under heavy positions, there are very few people who can hold the list
As early as last year, I discussed the methods of fund management in detail with you. In principle, if you manage funds well, it is unlikely that you will have a heavy position (unless your system is a heavy position trading method), but if you are in the capital You still can't hold the order under any circumstances, then you need to re-examine whether the trading position is really suitable for you, at least whether it is suitable for you at this stage.
Those who trade in the early stage will suffer from lower capital fluctuations. Only after continuous training and gradually getting in touch with large accounts, can they adapt to greater capital fluctuations. At the beginning, I could only trade accounts worth 1,000 US dollars. , If it exceeds 10,000, you will feel fear in your heart, let alone hundreds of thousands of accounts, so the position is the same. Sometimes judging whether a position is heavy or not is not only based on the position ratio, but also the capital volatility that traders can accept, such as When you see that the floating profit and loss can easily be thousands of dollars, you will feel overly excited or fearful, which means that the volatility of funds at this time is not suitable for you, and you need to make the position smaller until you can calmly look at the situation. The right fluctuation, this is the right position for you at the moment, it has nothing to do with your account size, even if you have a 100W account, if you can only keep calm in the state of floating profit and loss of a few hundred dollars, then temporarily press this Take the position, and add it slowly later, otherwise you will have no mentality at all, and there is no way to talk about profit.
Lack of confidence in trading is another killer who can't hold profits
Regarding lack of self-confidence, there are also two types here. One is the natural lack of technical ability. For many experienced traders, many technical analysis are still in the process of groping, and there is a lot of self-confidence, so at this time , My suggestion is, don't learn miscellaneous things at the beginning, first choose a few analysis techniques that you like or are familiar with, such as Fibonacci, such as Bollinger Bands or MACD, etc., do more useful Targeted research, find out the rules and signals you can find, use the simulation board to verify, and count the accuracy of this signal (everyone looks at the market from different angles, the same indicator will have different effects on different people) Accuracy rate), when placing an order on a firm offer, what you need to do is to use your confirmed high probability signal to trade. At this time, your confidence comes from the confirmed probability. This kind of confidence is not a psychological construction out of thin air, but It is given to you by real data. Even if you lose this time, you will be confident that you will get closer and closer to the probability of winning next time.
Another lack of self-confidence is when watching the market. Many people originally entered the market because of a certain trading signal, but found another contradictory signal during the process of watching the market. When the price tests the profit point, there is only a long sigh: I was right~ In fact, you must not think that this is really a regrettable thing. There is always a probability of being wrong in technology, and watching the market gives you a chance to escape, so if you are given another chance, you still can’t catch it, unless you don’t keep watching the market.
The shadow of turning from profit to loss will make it hard to hold orders
Many traders should have encountered it. When you can’t hold the order, you often make money. When you finally want to take the order, you turn around and knock out the stop loss in the middle of the profit. Once upon a time, I thought that someone in the market was watching I am against me, or I am unlucky and not suitable for trading.
However, if you review the market carefully, you will find that in addition to some of these lost orders, some were misjudged originally, and some orders were due to poor entry points, which enlarged the stop loss in the early stage, and then appeared in the continuous operation of the market. Therefore, the stop loss is moved, which increases the probability of stop loss. Therefore, in the transaction, we must develop the habit of entering the market at a good point as much as possible, and at the same time, do not adjust the stop loss easily; In addition, the market often does not accurately test a certain target point (many of the accurate tests are broken positions), and often runs in the opposite direction when it is almost a little bit. This is the psychology of the market. Everyone knows that the target is there. Therefore, the main funds will often accumulate energy to counterattack at this almost position, so under normal circumstances, the stop profit cannot be set too full. The market often says to remove the head and tail of the fish, and only eat the body of the fish. After solving these two problems, I suddenly found that my luck was much better, and my confidence in holding positions was also increasing.
But it is still unavoidable that sometimes there is a problem of turning profit into loss, so when doing some orders with a relatively large profit-loss ratio (for example, some are more than 4:1), I usually do it when the basic profit target (such as 2:1) is A short position, and the remaining space is only held in small positions. In addition to the trading principle of letting profits run, it is also to make patient holding positions a trading habit.
Of course, there may be more reasons why profits cannot be held. The above are just a few situations encountered by individuals in trading, but in any case, traders need to realize that holding profits is the foundation of trading profits. If you do it, you will basically miss the stable profit.
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